d2 was released in 2003 (first ladder season) with LOD expansion.
now, d4 was released in 2023. so, 20 years. now the company obviously put out d3 between d2 and d4, but i dont get what part of d3 took 10 years, i dont get what part of d4 took 10 years.
no one is talking about it, but this isnt a normal developmental capacity for a team. games dont take 10 years to make. there are teams out there that put out better products in less than half the time.
why do diablo fans have to wait 10 years to get a game, and then its almost always something messed up that gets good after expac.
like, it would be less of an issue if there was a diablo game every 2 years, and they would iterate on it, but every 10 years its basically generational and has no iteration because its a new generation that has no clue wtf u mean when you say baal runs, or rifts.
I’m with you though, we should be on Diablo 8 at this point or something. Why do they keep beating a dead horse with these “seasons”.
Just make a GOOD game with GOOD content and let it be. Then, produce a new game that BUILDS off the previous iteration, but with an updated game engine, a couple new ideas here and there, etc…
I made a serious post that got taken as a joke but like, seriously, this game shouldn’t be called Diablo. It would be much better off being called Lilith, as a spinoff of the Diablo series.
I played D2/LoD in the years before seasons were a thing. It was an absolute blast.
Seems like a short-sighted view on it. Those games survived because that’s all that existed for the Diablo series.
Seasons are just a bad approach to this type of game. The production schedule should be on a 2-3 year timeline and just churn out new versions more frequently.
The games you listed, D2/D3/PoE, don’t really have high concurrent player counts. I find it a stretch to call seasons successful.
Like, the games have a cult-following. How many people do you think jump on for a new D3 season? Maybe 200,000? I doubt it’s even that much. PoE’s current player count according to steamcount is 3,300.
I’d actually play D2 again but I threw away that stuff… 15 years ago. lol
Nothing beats actual good gameplay and good content.
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I realize that seasons can introduce new, interesting mechanics, but maybe there’s a better way to implement these things into the games?
This is implying the game has been in development all this time.
Highly unlikely.
At the same time, there may have been OTHER D4 internal project and the results were bad. It happens all the time. Some companies just release it nonetheless, but Blizz prob scrapped it and started it from scratch 3 years ago on the new project what actually came out to be D4,
I honestly think they freaked out after the “havent you guys got phones” fiasco and started on D4 right then and there or Blizzard/Avtivision would have plummeted on the stock market otherwise.
